Protecting land and water for people and wildlife

Protecting land and water for people and wildlife

Protecting land and water for people and wildlife

What We Do

Colorado Open Lands believes that Colorado’s lands and waters are critically important to our unmatched quality of life.  Our work is dedicated to ensuring their continued preservation for future generations.  Our conservation successes to date include:

686,921

Acres of land

715

Projects

50

Counties 

3,238

miles of waterways

Latest News

Colorado’s sandhill cranes are back for a limited time!

See more at the link below about how our economic impact study estimates that the Monte Vista Crane Festival  brings millions of dollars of tourism impact to the San Luis Valley each year! Unharvested grain on local farms is  critical to this stopover in the cranes’...

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Flying W Ranch – Permanently Protected!

In March, COL completed a conservation easement on 1,545-acres of the Flying W Ranch, southwest of the  City of Gunnison. Twenty years earlier, the owners had protected the other 2,433 acres of the property with  The Nature Conservancy, and now protection of the...

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